Stock Market & Financial Investment News

Regado Biosciences' REG1 anticoagulant shows positive Phase 2b resultsRegado Biosciences announced additional findings from its completed Phase 2b RADAR trial demonstrating the safety of early sheath removal in patients treated with REG1. The analysis showed that REG1 allowed for very early arterial sheath removal following cardiac catheterization without increasing the time to hemostasis or the frequency of vascular access-site bleeding complications. The study further determined that patients anticoagulated with REG1 during cardiac catheterization had their arterial sheath removed an average of more than three hours earlier than those anticoagulated with unfractionated heparin. Regado is currently testing REG1 in a global Phase 3 clinical trial, REGULATE-PCI, which is designed to show superiority in efficacy and non-inferiority in safety against the current standard, bivalirudin. The first of three key interim analyses in the trial is expected to occur during Q2.